School Lunches & Meals

The St. Vrain Valley School District's Department of Nutrition Services provides quality, nutritious and well balanced meals to the District's students. The Department strives to provide meals at a reasonable price and to make sure that all meals meet the National School Breakfast and Lunch nutritional guidelines providing a ¼ of the RDA (recommended dietary guidelines) at breakfast and 1/3 of the RDA’S at lunch for students.

In addition to the Department's goal of providing healthy meals for students, the Department works to be an efficient, self-supporting enterprise program within the District. It is the goal of the Department to cover all of its operating expenses. Over 2.45 million meals were prepared during the 2008/2009 school year by a staff of 225 employees that averaged 19.5 meals per labor hour.

Our team of nutrition service professionals is committed to providing a quality meal program to your student. We look forward to serving your child - and you - every day!

Department Goals

To provide programs that will improve the eating attitudes and habits of children and adults of this community which encompasses the following areas:

  • Provide a quality nutrition service, which continuously improves our value to customers and clients, while achieving sustainable economic stability.
  • To serve meals that complies with the USDA Dietary Guidelines.
    • Incorporate whole grain products weekly
    • Offer a minimum of two fruits and vegetables at lunch daily
    • Monitor all meal items to make sure that they meet the nutritional guidelines of less than 30% fat, 10% saturated fat and less than 30% sugar by weight.
    • Offer variety and daily choices that are nutritionally sound to students
  • Marketing and Nutrition Education information on monthly menu, internet, and in school cafeterias.
  • Provide Nutrition Education programs for children that, when integrated with other curriculum disciplines, will help to change the nutritional lifestyle habits of the next adult generation.

Menus

As well as being featured on the District's website, lunch menus are posted at each school, published in local newspapers, and posted on Comcast Cable Education Bulletin channels. Monthly lunch menus are also featured in most school newsletters (either electronically or a hard copy).

* Includes nutritional information.

Students are also welcome to bring a lunch from home. Parents/guardians are invited to dine with their children any time throughout the school year. Reservations for parents/guardians planning to eat with their children are accepted by calling the respective school's office.

Paying Online/Meal Charging Service

The District offers all parents of St. Vrain Valley School District students the opportunity to electronically deposit funds into their student's lunch account. The system makes use of an online account and requires the use of a credit card. For more information, please visit:

Costs

Every effort is made to make sure that District can provide enjoyable, healthy meals at the lowest possible cost. The following prices are for the 2009/2010 school year.

  • No Charge - Reduced Breakfast
  • No Charge - Reduced Lunch K-2
  • $0.40 - Reduced Lunch 3-12

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  • $1.25 - Elementary School Breakfast
  • $2.25 - Elementary School Lunch

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  • $1.50 - Secondary School Breakfast
  • $2.50 - Secondary School Lunch

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  • $1.75 - Adult Breakfast
  • $3.00 - Adult Lunch

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  • Milk, Juice, or Water only $.50 each.

Free/Reduced Meals

Free and reduced price meals are available to students whose families qualify. Applications for free and reduced price meals may be submitted anytime throughout the year and are available in school offices and online. The prices for a reduced price lunch and a reduced price breakfast are currently Breakfast, “no charge” and lunch $.40,. These prices are set according to federal regulation.

In order for students to receive free or reduced price meals, a parent/guardian must complete an application and return it to their student's school for approval. A parent/guardian may apply for free/reduced meals anytime during the school year. If a parent/guardian has a change in their financial situation (i.e. a decrease in household income, an increase in household size, becoming unemployed, begins receiving food stamps, etc.) an application may be submitted even if the parent/guardian was not eligible at a prior time.

Nutrition Guidelines

Food Safety

It is the goal of this department to maintain the highest standards in food safety. In 2004 the Child Reauthorization Act mandated that all school NS programs be inspected yearly by the county health department. In addition to the yearly inspection the Department of Health has a yearly hands-on training with all cafeteria managers to review policy and procedures for handling food.

PTO Food Purchasing Guidlines

2009-2010 Pepsi Flavor Chart
Pepsi Pricing Sheet
PTO Food Handling For Bake Sales Guidelines
PTO Food Purchasing Guidlines

Annual Report

2007-2008 Nutrition Services Annual Report

Catering

Catering

Additional Information

For more information about any of the above, please contact the Department of Nutrition Services by phone at (303) 682 - 7251.

St. Vrain Valley School District  •  395 South Pratt Parkway  •  Longmont, Colorado 80501        (303) 776 - 6200